Top 10 AMAZING Facts About PLANET JUPITER

Top 10 AMAZING Facts About PLANET JUPITER

• welcome to top10archive as we continue on our quest to get to know our solar system better we come to the fifth planet from the Sun Jupiter some of you may recognize it as the just in the grade-school mnemonic my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas we may not have nine pizzas but we do have 10 great facts about Jupiter for you.

• NUMBER # 10

• the biggest planet in fact it's quite larger than every other planet in the solar system Jupiter comes in with a radius of 43 thousand 441 miles or sixty nine thousand nine hundred eleven kilometers which is almost ten thousand miles or sixteen thousand kilometers larger than the next largest planet Saturn in comparison to our lovely little planet it would take 11.2 Earth's laid side by side to match the diameter of Jupiter it's believed that Jupiter's massive size is responsible for directing the paths of smaller objects within the solar system either sending comets or asteroids into or away from the inner solar system thanks Jupiter you're awesome.

• NUMBER # 09
• five times farther if you look at a map of the solar system you'll find that Mercury Venus Earth and Mars are relatively close to one another and are within 150 million miles or 249 million kilometers from the Sun then there's Jupiter which just had to be completely different and separate itself from the initial planetary quartet by approximately 300 million miles or 482 million kilometers at its closest proximity Jupiter is around 460 million miles or 741 million kilometres from the Sun making it nearly 5 times farther away from the Sun than Earth its extended distance means Jupiter takes just about 12 earth years to orbit the Sun.

• NUMBER # 08
• number 8 shortened day regardless of the 12 year orbital period Jupiter actually has much shorter days than earth where we Earthlings experienced a 24-hour cycle Jovians get to enjoy a day that's nine hours and 56 minutes long why the shortened cycle we're so glad you asked it's all about how fast the planet spins but since Jupiter doesn't have surface features to monitor rotation off of and the storms move way too fast for accurate readings scientists had to base this figure off of Jupiter's magnetic field using radio emissions it's still not entirely accurate as different parts of Jupiter such as the equator rotate at different speeds and have slightly deviated day cycles.

• NUMBER # 07
• the gassy planet well we've all had those days where yesterday's extravagant dinner turns into a day of gaseous regret but poor Jupiter goes through that on a daily basis Jupiter is one of two gas giants in the solar system comprised primarily of hydrogen and helium at an approximate ratio of 90 to 10% respectively Jupiter is one big gashes fall so much so that if you tried to land on the planet's surface you'd be sorely disappointed what scientists consider the surface of Jupiter is just the point where the atmospheric pressure is at an equivalent to Earth's.

• NUMBER # 06

• Jupiter is home to damaging storms two facts ago we mentioned how Jupiter experiences fast-moving storms but there's so much more to know about the Giants whether on top of being fast-moving storms on Jupiter can grow to cover substantial areas and be incredibly damaging we're talking about growth of up to thousands of miles or kilometers wide within just a few hours the planets own heat source found deep within the mixture of gases towards Jupiter's core is primarily responsible for the moist convection that helps drives Jupiter's damaging weather patterns the process is similar to earth form storms though the Sun has nothing to do with the powerful lightning and damaging winds on this gas giant.
• NUMBER # 05
• nobody has claimed Jupiter's discovery the discovery of most planets in our solar system can be linked back to an or team of scientists but there are a few that have any loose of history nobody in the modern world can be credited with the discovery of Jupiter as the massive bright planet is one of only five planets that can be seen without technical assistance what is known is that the Romans were the first to give Jupiter a formal name fittingly after their Supreme God and deity of thunder lightning and the sky if a name must be associated with its discovery Galileo Galilei was the first person to view the planet via telescope.
• NUMBER # 04
• Galileo's discovery though Galileo can't technically be credited with Jupiter's discovery upon observation of the massive planet he did stumble across some interesting characteristics during his feelings in the early 1600s Galileo came across four celestial objects surrounding Jupiter moons that came to be known as Io Europa Ganymede and Callisto to commemorate Galileo's findings the group of Jupiter's largest moons were later dubbed the Galilean moons the discovery though important to those intrigued by Jupiter also marked a turning point in how the solar system was viewed whereas everything was once believed to have revolved around the earth in the Ptolemaic world system the Galilean moons showed that celestial bodies could orbit other objects in space.
• NUMBER # 03
• the many many moons of Jupiter though Galileo laid claim to four of Jupiter's moons he had no idea that there were more lying in wait in fact the great astronomer was nowhere near finding every one of the gas giants moons overall there are 67 known satellites orbiting and considering the latest of them was discovered only in 2011 there's a chance that more are out there the moons range from a considerably small size of 1.2 miles or 2 kilometers to a much grander at 3273 miles or 5,200 68 kilometers in diameter 51 of Jupiter satellites are considered irregular meaning they were captured within the planet's orbit rather than having been formed in the orbit itself.
• NUMBER # 02
• largest moon of Jupiter 67 moons the one that seems to stand out most is Ganymede chances are it makes the biggest impression because it's the largest known moon within our solar system at 3273 miles or 5200 68 kilometers wide Ganymede is nearly twice the size of Earth's moon this oversized Galilean moon is so large that it's the eighth largest object in the solar system coming in just behind Mars and just ahead of Saturn's moon Titan one of Ganymede's more interesting features is the alleged saltwater ocean that rest 124 miles or 200 kilometers below its surface. 
• NUMBER # 01 
• a 300 year storm we spoke briefly about the strong weather patterns that Jupiter experiences but we saved this little nugget for the very end as damaging as Jupiter's storms are you wouldn't initially think that one could last upwards of 300 years but that's exactly what's happening in this gas giants atmosphere the very first up-close imagery of what's been named the Great Red Spot came from voyager ones journey in 1979 though initial observations of the storm have been dated as far back as 1665 there's speculation as to whether these earlier discoveries were one in the same but it is known that the current spot has been under scrutiny since 1830 the 300 year old storm continues to dole out extreme winds exceeding 200 miles or 320 kilometers per hour do you have an idea for a future.

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